EP1186904B1 - Search and positioning method for persons - Google Patents

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EP1186904B1
EP1186904B1 EP01121817A EP01121817A EP1186904B1 EP 1186904 B1 EP1186904 B1 EP 1186904B1 EP 01121817 A EP01121817 A EP 01121817A EP 01121817 A EP01121817 A EP 01121817A EP 1186904 B1 EP1186904 B1 EP 1186904B1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01S19/01—Satellite radio beacon positioning systems transmitting time-stamped messages, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System], GLONASS [Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System] or GALILEO
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    • A62—LIFE-SAVING; FIRE-FIGHTING
    • A62B—DEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
    • A62B33/00—Devices for allowing seemingly-dead persons to escape or draw attention; Breathing apparatus for accidentally buried persons
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B29/00—Apparatus for mountaineering
    • A63B29/02—Mountain guy-ropes or accessories, e.g. avalanche ropes; Means for indicating the location of accidentally buried, e.g. snow-buried, persons
    • A63B29/021—Means for indicating the location of accidentally buried, e.g. snow-buried, persons
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
    • G01S19/00—Satellite radio beacon positioning systems; Determining position, velocity or attitude using signals transmitted by such systems
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    • G01S2205/00—Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations
    • G01S2205/001—Transmission of position information to remote stations
    • G01S2205/006—Transmission of position information to remote stations for emergency situations
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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    • G01S5/0027—Transmission from mobile station to base station of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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  • the invention relates to a method and an arrangement for searching and locating persons in emergency situations, eg. B. in the Alpine rescue area, or to locate missing persons for monitoring purposes such. From (small) children or confused people.
  • US-A-5 952 959 discloses a method and system for relative positioning of two GPS devices.
  • the position values of the first GPS device are determined and sent by radio signal to a second GPS device.
  • the second GPS device also determines its position values and uses these and the position values received from the first GPS device to calculate the relative distance between the two GPS devices.
  • the distance and a direction information can be displayed graphically on a display. These are two matched devices.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a method and an arrangement with which, regardless of the distance of the missing person to the locating place a precise localization of this person is possible.
  • the method and the arrangement should be inexpensive, safe and reliable.
  • the monitoring device Due to the mobile connection, it is not necessary that the monitoring device must be close to the monitoring person, but it could also be an additional mobile connection to the search team on site, via which the necessary location information z. B. by telephone or by data transfer from a supervising person / team can be passed.
  • the cost of the devices to be located and the locating devices are low, as can be used on commercial equipment, the existing GPS positioning technology and area-wide GSM or future UMTS mobile networks.
  • almost any number of people from just as many search teams can be monitored without affecting each other, since the transfer of the location information via each has its own communication link.
  • a continuous movement image incl The speed of movement of the person to be searched can be created.
  • the Fig. 1 shows the basic structure of a to be located and a location mobile unit. The invention will be described in more detail below by way of example.
  • the computer module (14) in the mobile unit I (1) selects a mobile radio connection to the monitoring mobile unit II (2) by means of a GSM / UMTS RF module (11) and maintains this connection that constantly the location information with possibly the personal information to the mobile unit II (2) can be transmitted, or dials at certain intervals, the mobile unit II (2) and even passes only the current location information, if necessary, with the personal information continue and then break the connection again.
  • the "standby" mode when the mobile unit I (1) is selected by the mobile unit II (2), the connection is established, the current location data, with possibly the additional information, are sent to the mobile unit II (2). Depending on the request by the mobile unit II (2), this connection can be broken down, the mobile unit I (1) can return to the standby mode or from this time on begin the continuous or intermittent transmission of the location information.
  • the mobile unit II (2) either adopts the connection continuously or at intervals and stores / processes the location data of the mobile unit I (1) in a computer (25), so that it is displayed on the display for graphical representation (24) can be displayed in an electronically generated map as a search point or motion image or calls in standby mode of the mobile unit I (1) this current location data by means of a selector (23) and a GSM / UMTS RF module (21) possibly with the additional data to process them further.
  • the mobile unit II (2) itself has a GPS module (22), the display, the geaphischen representation (24) and the direction, distance, height or depth of the mobile unit I (1) in relation to the mobile unit II (2) are displayed.

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The missing person, or person to be found, carries a mobile unit (1). This contains a GPS receiver. The required location information is transmitted via a mobile radio network (GSM or UMTS) to a second mobile unit (2). The information is displayed graphically on the second mobile unit. An Independent claim is included for the corresponding mobile equipment, and covers both units (1,2).

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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren und eine Anordnung zur Suche und Lokalisieren von Personen in Notfallsituationen, z. B. im alpinen Rettungsbereich, oder zum Lokalisieren von vermissten Personen zu Überwachungszwecken wie z. B. von (Klein-) Kinder oder von verwirrte Personen.The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for searching and locating persons in emergency situations, eg. B. in the Alpine rescue area, or to locate missing persons for monitoring purposes such. From (small) children or confused people.

Es sind speziell im alpinen Bereich Suchsysteme bekannt, bei welchen die zu schützende Person einen Signalgeber am Körper trägt und der im Gefahrenfall (abgehende Lawine) entweder manuell oder automatisch aktiviert wird und in Abhängigkeit von der Batteriekapazität für eine bestimmte Zeit ein Funksignal und / oder ein akustisches Signal abgibt.There are known especially in the alpine area search systems in which the person to be protected carries a signal generator on the body and in case of danger (outgoing avalanche) either manually or automatically activated and depending on the battery capacity for a certain time a radio signal and / or a emits acoustic signal.

Nachteilig an diesen Geräten ist, dass das akustische Signal aufgrund der Baugröße der Signalgeräte nur in einem begrenzten Radius gehört werden kann oder das Funksignal mit ebenfalls in begrenztem Radius wirkenden speziellen Funkpeilempfängern angepeilt werden kann. Weiterhin müssen bei der Funkortung mindestens zwei Funkpeilempfänger für die Ermittlung der Position der z. B. durch eine Lawine verschüttete Person verwendet werden. Zudem ist diese Peilmethode relativ ungenau, da es speziell im Hochgebirge durch Reflexionen des Funksignals an Felsenwänden zu Fehlmessungen kommen kann. Solche Fehlmessungen bedeuten jedoch einen erheblichen Zeitverlust bei dem Aufspüren der verschütteten Person, was u. U. ausschlaggebend für das Lebendbergen dieser Person ist. Senden zwei oder mehrere Signalgeber auf der gleichen Funkfrequenz, ist eine Funkortung nur sehr schwer möglich oder überhaupt nicht durchzuführen. Zudem kann das manuelle Auslösen des Signalgerätes bei einer überraschenden Gefahr nicht mehr durchgeführt werden oder die automatische Auslösung ist durch die verschiedenen zu berücksichtigenden Parametern für einen Gefahrenfall nicht zuverlässig.A disadvantage of these devices is that the acoustic signal due to the size of the signal devices can only be heard in a limited radius or the radio signal can be targeted with also acting in a limited radius special Funkpeilempfängern. Furthermore, at least two radio focus receiver for determining the position of the z. B. spilled by an avalanche person can be used. In addition, this Peilmethode is relatively inaccurate, since it may come to reflections of the radio signal on rock walls, especially in the high mountains to erroneous measurements. However, such incorrect measurements mean a considerable loss of time in the detection of the spilled person, what u. U. is crucial for the living mountains of this person. If two or more signal transmitters transmit at the same radio frequency, it is very difficult or even impossible to locate the radio. In addition, the manual triggering of the signaling device in a surprising risk can not be performed or the automatic triggering is through the various parameters to be considered are not reliable for a hazard.

In der US-A-5 952 959 ist ein Verfahren und System zur relativen Positionsbestimmung von zwei GPS-Geräten offenbart. Dabei werden die Positionswerte des ersten GPS-Gerätes bestimmt und per Funksignal an ein zweites GPS-Gerät gesendet. Das zweite GPS-Gerät bestimmt ebenfalls seine Positionswerte und errechnet aus diesen und den vom ersten GPS-Gerät empfangenen Positionswerten den relativen Abstand der beiden GPS-Geräte. Der Abstand und eine Richtungsinformation sind auf einem Display graphisch darstellbar. Es handelt sich hier um zwei aufeinander abgestimmte Geräte.In the US-A-5 952 959 discloses a method and system for relative positioning of two GPS devices. The position values of the first GPS device are determined and sent by radio signal to a second GPS device. The second GPS device also determines its position values and uses these and the position values received from the first GPS device to calculate the relative distance between the two GPS devices. The distance and a direction information can be displayed graphically on a display. These are two matched devices.

Die DE 197 55 075 A1 sowie WO 99/49331 A1 offenbaren mobile Alarm- und Notrufsysteme basierend auf GPS-Navigation und GSM-Mobilkommunikation, bei dem ein Notrufendgerät über Mobilfunk zur Übermittlung seines Standorts veranlasst werden kann.The DE 197 55 075 A1 such as WO 99/49331 A1 disclose mobile alarm and emergency call systems based on GPS navigation and GSM mobile communications where an emergency call device can be mobilized to transmit its location via mobile communications.

Aufgabe der Erfindung ist es, ein Verfahren und eine Anordnung anzugeben, mit denen unabhängig von der Entfernung der vermissten Person zur ortenden Stelle eine genaue Lokalisierung dieser Person möglich ist. Insbesondere sollen das Verfahren und die Anordnung kostengünstig, sicher und zuverlässig sein.The object of the invention is to provide a method and an arrangement with which, regardless of the distance of the missing person to the locating place a precise localization of this person is possible. In particular, the method and the arrangement should be inexpensive, safe and reliable.

Diese Aufgabe wird durch die Merkmale der unabhängigen Patentansprüche gelöst.This object is solved by the features of the independent claims.

Vorteilhafte Weiterbildungen der Erfindung sind in den Unteransprüchen gekennzeichnet.Advantageous developments of the invention are characterized in the subclaims.

Die Vorteile der Erfindung sind, dass ohne Zutun der vermissten Person durch Abfrage der Ortsinformation der Suchvorgang jederzeit eingeleitet werden kann oder durch die kontinuierliche bzw. intervallmäßige Aussendung der Ortsinformationen jederzeit aufgenommen werden kann.The advantages of the invention are that without any action by the missing person by querying the location information, the search process can be initiated at any time or can be recorded at any time by the continuous or interval transmission of the location information.

Die graphische Darstellung kann auf tragbare Laptops bzw. Palmtops in Verbindung mit GSM oder/und UMTS-Mobilfunkendgeräten (Handies) oder Smartphones (Kombination von Handy und Rechner mit graphischen Display) erfolgen. Die Suche kann somit vollkommen ortsunabhängig mit Geräten von nur geringem Gewicht und ohne jegliche Einschaltung einer ortsfesten Zentrale durchgeführt werden. Als Suchinformation können die Einblendung der Ortsposition in elektronisch erzeugte Karten oder Entfernungs- Richtungs-, Höhen- oder Tiefenangaben im Bezug auf die suchenden Personen dienen, so dass mit z. B. Kartenzoomfunktion hochgenau die Lage der zu suchenden Person dargestellt werden kann oder die Richtung und Entfernung zur suchenden Person am Display direkt graphisch angezeigt und abgelesen werden kann. Durch die Mobilfunkverbindung ist es nicht notwendig, dass die überwachende Einrichtung ortsnah zu der überwachenden Person sein muss, sondern es könnte auch eine zusätzliche Mobilfunkverbindung zu der Suchmannschaft vor Ort aufgebaut werden, über welche die notwendige Ortsinformation z. B. fernmündlich oder per Datentransfer von einer überwachenden Person / Mannschaft aus weitergegeben werden kann. Zudem sind die Anschaffungskosten der zu ortenden Geräten und der ortenden Geräte niedrig, da auf handelsübliche Geräte, die bestehende GPS-Ortungstechnik und flächendeckende GSM- bzw. zukünftig UMTS-Mobilfunknetze zurückgegriffen werden kann. Weiterhin können nahezu beliebig viele Personen von ebenso beliebig vielen Suchmannschaften überwacht werden ohne sich gegenseitig zu beeinflussen, da die Übertragung der Ortsinformationen über jeweils eine eigene Nachrichtenverbindung erfolgt. Gleichzeitig kann durch mehrmaliges Abfragen der Ortsinformation oder bei kontinuierlicher bzw. intervallartiger Abgabe der Ortsinformationen ein kontinuierliches Bewegungsabbild incl. der Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit der zu suchenden Person erstellt werden.The graphical representation can be made on portable laptops or palmtops in conjunction with GSM and / or UMTS mobile terminals (mobile phones) or smartphones (combination of mobile phone and computer with graphic display). The search can thus be carried out completely independent of location with devices of light weight and without any involvement of a fixed center. As a search information, the insertion of the spatial position in electronically generated maps or distance direction, height or depth information with respect to the people seeking can serve so that with z. B. map zoom function highly accurate the location of the person to be searched can be displayed or the direction and distance to the person searching on the display can be displayed and read graphically directly. Due to the mobile connection, it is not necessary that the monitoring device must be close to the monitoring person, but it could also be an additional mobile connection to the search team on site, via which the necessary location information z. B. by telephone or by data transfer from a supervising person / team can be passed. In addition, the cost of the devices to be located and the locating devices are low, as can be used on commercial equipment, the existing GPS positioning technology and area-wide GSM or future UMTS mobile networks. Furthermore, almost any number of people from just as many search teams can be monitored without affecting each other, since the transfer of the location information via each has its own communication link. At the same time, by repeated querying of the location information or in the case of continuous or intermittent delivery of the location information, a continuous movement image incl. The speed of movement of the person to be searched can be created.

Die Fig. 1 zeigt den prinzipiellen Aufbau einer zu ortenden und einer ortenden mobilen Einheit.
Die Erfindung wird anhand eines Beispieles nachfolgend näher beschrieben.The Fig. 1 shows the basic structure of a to be located and a location mobile unit.
The invention will be described in more detail below by way of example.

Die ortenden mobile Einheit I besteht im wesentlichen aus einem GSM- oder/und UMTS-Modul, einem GPS-Modul mit zugehöriger (gemeinsamer) Antenne, einem Datenmodul, einem Lautsprecher und einem Rechner, der die Funktionen der einzelnen Module steuert und auch der Tonerzeugung für den Lautsprecher dient. Die ortende mobile Einheit II besteht im wesentlichen aus einem GSM- und/oder UMTS-Modul, einem GPS-Modul mit (gemeinsamer) Antenne, einer Wahleinrichtung, einem Display und ebenfalls aus einem Rechner, der die Funktionen der einzelnen Module dieser Einheit II steuert.The locating mobile unit I consists essentially of a GSM and / or UMTS module, a GPS module with associated (common) antenna, a data module, a loudspeaker and a computer, which controls the functions of the individual modules and also the tone generation for the speaker. The locating mobile unit II consists essentially of a GSM and / or UMTS module, a GPS module with (common) antenna, a dialer, a Display and also from a computer, which controls the functions of the individual modules of this unit II.

Die zu überwachende oder zu suchende Person trägt die mobile Einheit I (1) bei sich. Über ein Rechner-Modul (14) kann die Art des Überwachungsverfahrens gewählt werden. Je nach Gegebenheit kann die mobile Einheit I (1) auf Bereitschaft, auf kontinuierliche Aussendung der Ortsinformationen oder auf Aussendung der Ortsinformation in Intervallen eingestellt werden. Diese Ortsinformation wird aus den GPS-Signalen, die von einem GPS-Modul (12) empfangen und decodiert werden, bereitgestellt. In einem Datenmodul (13) können persönliche Daten, wie Risikofaktoren, Blutgruppe usw. des Trägers der Einheit I (1) und/oder Anwahlinformationen für die Verbindung zu einer oder mehrere überwachenden Einheiten II (2) abgespeichert sein.
Je nach Modus wählt das Rechner-Modul (14) in der mobilen Einheit I (1) mittels eines GSM/UMTS-HF-Moduls (11) eine Mobilfunkverbindung zur überwachenden mobile Einheit II (2) einmal an und hält diese Verbindung aufrecht, so dass ständig die Ortsinformationen mit ggf. den persönlichen Informationen an die mobile Einheit II (2) übertragen werden können, bzw. wählt in bestimmten Zeitabständen die mobile Einheit II (2) an und reicht dabei einmal nur die aktuellen Ortsinformationen ggf. mit den persönlichen Informationen weiter und bricht die Verbindung danach wieder ab. Im Modus "Bereitschaft" wird bei Anwahl der mobilen Einheit I (1) durch die mobile Einheit II (2) die Verbindung aufgebaut, die aktuellen Ortsdaten mit ggf. den Zusatzinformationen an die mobile Einheit II (2) abgesandt. Je nach Anforderung durch die mobile Einheit II (2) kann diese Verbindung abgebaut werden, die mobile Einheit I (1) wieder in den Bereitschaftmodus zurückkehren oder ab diesen Zeitpunkt mit der kontinuierlichen oder intervallmäßigen Aussendung der Ortsinformationen beginnen.The person to be monitored or to be searched carries the mobile unit I (1) with him. About a computer module (14), the type of monitoring process can be selected. Depending on the circumstances, the mobile unit I (1) can be set to standby, to continuous transmission of the location information or to transmission of the location information at intervals. This location information is provided from the GPS signals received and decoded by a GPS module (12). Personal data, such as risk factors, blood group, etc. of the wearer of the unit I (1) and / or selection information for the connection to one or more monitoring units II (2) can be stored in a data module (13).
Depending on the mode, the computer module (14) in the mobile unit I (1) selects a mobile radio connection to the monitoring mobile unit II (2) by means of a GSM / UMTS RF module (11) and maintains this connection that constantly the location information with possibly the personal information to the mobile unit II (2) can be transmitted, or dials at certain intervals, the mobile unit II (2) and even passes only the current location information, if necessary, with the personal information continue and then break the connection again. In the "standby" mode, when the mobile unit I (1) is selected by the mobile unit II (2), the connection is established, the current location data, with possibly the additional information, are sent to the mobile unit II (2). Depending on the request by the mobile unit II (2), this connection can be broken down, the mobile unit I (1) can return to the standby mode or from this time on begin the continuous or intermittent transmission of the location information.

Die mobile Einheit II (2) als ortende Einheit nimmt je nach Modus entweder die Verbindung kontinuierlich oder intervallmäßig an und speichert / verarbeitet die Ortsdaten der mobilen Einheit I (1) in einem Rechner (25), so dass diese auf dem Display zur graphischen Darstellung (24) in einer elektronsich erzeugten Karte als Suchpunkt oder Bewegungsabbild eingeblendet werden können oder ruft im Bereitschaftsmodus der mobilen Einheit I (1) diese aktuellen Ortsdaten mittels einer Wähleinrichtung (23) und einem GSM/UMTS-HF-Modul (21) eventuell mit den zusätzlichen Daten ab um diese weiter zu verarbeiten. Bei Bedarf kann auch von der mobilen Einheit II (2) aus ein Lautsprecher (15) in der mobilen Einheit I (1) zur Abgabe eines Signaltons angeregt werden um entweder die Suche der vermissten Person zu erleichtern, die zu überwachende Person auf die Positionsabfrage aufmerksam zu machen oder als Sirenenton auf eine Notsituation aufmerksam zu machen. In diesem Fall kann der Sirenenton auch bei der mobilen Einheit I (1) manuell ausgelöst werden und gleichzeitig wie im kontinuierlichen Modus oder Intervallmodus die aktuelle Ortsinformation an die mobile Einheit II (29 weitergegeben werden. Hier könnte z. B. auch aus dem Datenmodul (13) der mobilen Einheit I (1) automatisch eine vorformulierte und dort abgespeicherte Notrufmeldung abgerufen und ausgesendet werden.Depending on the mode, the mobile unit II (2) either adopts the connection continuously or at intervals and stores / processes the location data of the mobile unit I (1) in a computer (25), so that it is displayed on the display for graphical representation (24) can be displayed in an electronically generated map as a search point or motion image or calls in standby mode of the mobile unit I (1) this current location data by means of a selector (23) and a GSM / UMTS RF module (21) possibly with the additional data to process them further. If required, a loudspeaker (15) in the mobile unit I (1) can also be excited by the mobile unit II (2) to emit a beep in order either to facilitate the search for the missing person or to alert the person to be monitored to the position inquiry to make or as a siren sound to draw attention to an emergency situation. In this case, the siren sound can also be triggered manually at the mobile unit I (1) and, at the same time, as in continuous mode or interval mode, the current location information be forwarded to the mobile unit II (29). 13) of the mobile unit I (1) automatically a preformulated and stored there emergency call message is retrieved and sent out.

Da die mobile Einheit II (2) selbst ein GPS-Modul (22) besitzt, können auf dem Display zur geaphischen Darstellung (24) auch die Richtung, Entfernung, Höhe oder Tiefe der mobilen Einheit I (1) in Relation zur mobilen Einheit II (2) angezeigt werden.Since the mobile unit II (2) itself has a GPS module (22), the display, the geaphischen representation (24) and the direction, distance, height or depth of the mobile unit I (1) in relation to the mobile unit II (2) are displayed.

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GPS-ModulGPS module
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Claims (12)

  1. Method for searching for and locating people,
    where a piece of location information ascertained by a GPS receiver in a mobile unit I on the missing person or the person to be sought is sent to a second mobile unit II and this location information is presented graphically in the mobile unit II,
    characterized
    in that the ascertained location information is sent via a mobile radio network (GSM or UMTS network) to the second mobile unit II (2),
    in that a data module (13) stores personal data for the wearer of the unit I (1) and/or dial-up information for the connection to one or more monitoring units II (2),
    in that the mobile unit II dials up the mobile unit I, which is in a standby mode, via the mobile radio network and prompts the mobile unit I to emit the location information, where, depending on the request by the mobile unit II (2), either the connection is cleared down and the mobile unit I (1) returns to a standby mode after the location information has been emitted or continuous or interval-based transmission of the location information is started from this time.
  2. Method according to Claim 1, characterized in that the mobile unit I sends the location information to the mobile unit II continuously via a permanent communication link in the mobile radio network.
  3. Method according to Claim 1, characterized in that the mobile unit I sets up a communication link via the mobile radio network at particular intervals and sends a respective piece of location information to the mobile unit II.
  4. Method according to Claim 3, characterized in that dialling up the mobile unit I prompts it to emit an audible signal.
  5. Method according to Claims 1, 2 and 3,
    characterized in that the location information from the mobile unit I is presented graphically in the mobile unit II on a display.
  6. Method according to Claim 5, characterized in that the presentation of the location information is displayed within an electronically produced map.
  7. Method according to Claim 6, characterized in that the individual location information is presented as a depiction of movement.
  8. Method according to Claim 6, characterized in that the location information is presented as a direction statement, a range statement and an altitude or depth statement.
  9. Arrangement for carrying out the method according to Claims 1 to 8 for searching for and locating missing persons, where a mobile unit I (1) is provided which comprises a GPS module (12), a data module (13) and a computer module (14) which connects and controls the other modules, and a mobile unit II (2) is provided which comprises a GPS module (22), a display for graphical presentation (24) and a computer (25) which connects and controls these modules, characterized in that the mobile units I (1) and II (2) respectively contain a GSM/UMTS-HF module (11) and (21),
    in that the data module (13) in the mobile unit I (1) contains personal data for the wearer of the mobile unit I (1) and/or dial-up data for the mobile unit II (2), and in that the mobile device II (2) comprises a dialling device (23),
    where the mobile unit I (1) is set up for operation in a standby mode and can be dialled up by the mobile unit II via the mobile radio network and prompted to emit the location information, the mobile unit I (1) being set up, depending on the request by the mobile unit II (2), either to clear down the connection and return to a standby mode after the location information has been emitted or to start continuous or interval-based transmission of the location information from this time.
  10. Arrangement according to Claim 9, characterized in that the mobile unit I contains a loudspeaker (15) as an audible signal generator.
  11. Arrangement according to Claim 9, characterized in that the data module (13) contains a prepared, stored alarm message which, upon manual initiation of the transmission process for the location information from the mobile unit I (1) to the mobile unit II (2) by an operating element on the mobile unit I (1), transmits this alarm message at the same time.
  12. Arrangement according to Claim 9, characterized in that the dialling device (23) contains dialling information for at least one mobile unit I.
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